Westmoreland Land District is one of the twenty land districts of
Tasmania
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which are part of the
Cadastral divisions of Tasmania
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Often it is represented graphically in a cad ...
. It was formerly one of the 18
counties of Tasmania
The 18 former counties of Tasmania, renamed as Land Districts:
* Arthur County
* Buckingham County
* Cornwall County
*Cumberland County
* Devon County
* Dorset County
* Franklin County
* Glamorgan County
* Kent County
* Lincoln County
* Monmouth Co ...
.
The original parishes
On 15 January 1836 George Arthur, the Lieutenant Governor of the Island of
Van Diemen's Land
Van Diemen's Land was the colonial name of the island of Tasmania used by the British during the European exploration of Australia in the 19th century. A British settlement was established in Van Diemen's Land in 1803 before it became a sepa ...
proclaimed, via
The Hobart Town Courier
''The Courier'' is a newspaper founded in 1827 in Hobart, Tasmania, as ''The Hobart Town Courier''. It changed its name to ''The Hobart Town Courier and Van Diemen's Land Advertiser'' in 1839, settling on ''The Courier'' in 1840.
By 1830 the ne ...
, the first counties and parishes to be surveyed in the colony.
County of Westmoreland, bounded on the north by the river Meander, and by the great road to the Surrey Hills from Deloraine bridge to the ford in the river Mersey; on the east bv a portion of the river South Esk and the Lake river; on the south by a line from Wood's lake to the Shannon at St. Patrick's plains, and by that river to the Great lake and thence by a line to the river Nive; on the west by the river Nive to its source, and thence by a line by the extreme Western bluff to the ford in the Mersey.
Hundreds and parishes proclaimed at this time were:
* The hundred of Norfolk Plains
**Longford parish
**Cressy
**Carrick
**Little Hampton
*The hundred of Westbury
**Westbury
**Quamby
**Sillwood
**Adelphi
The townships of
Longford
Longford () is the county town of County Longford in Ireland. It has a population of 10,008 according to the 2016 census. It is the biggest town in the county and about one third of the county's population lives there. Longford lies at the meet ...
,
Carrick, and
Westbury were proclaimed as being within the county.
References
Land Districts of Tasmania
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